I'm also aware of the P3OL project which supports AOL 2.x and 3.x clients.
There was something really cool about getting MMO Guild chat (or Fleet chat in my case as a big Star Trek Online player at the time) in your normal IM client.
That was also about when we discovered the server would let you create channels that would be global across all the games (and any IM clients). I still tend to refer to Champions Online and (Cryptic's) NeverWinter Online as "Holodeck Adventures" for that reason, because I'd commonly play those in the days of my very active STO Fleet until people started chatting about STO in the global fleet chat.
I really miss the group chats on Yahoo that included voice. X spaces is close-ish, and I know that discord and others have similar features... just feels a lot less connected.
It's a miracle we still have this with email.
My legit email often gets buried and neglected for days.
An example for Escargot (MSN):
https://codeberg.org/transgirlphoebe/msn-pecan/commit/2bac1e...
There are binaries in the action artifacts, but like I said an installer is coming soon (tm)
Here you would try to reuse your old computer (usually 15-20 years old) for common tasks done in 2025. The web it's a no-no minus a few services but you would surprised. Hint: yt-dlp+mpv set to 480p and below, Retrozilla+ a TLS hack in about:config, fake User Agents (PSP, Opera Mini...), https://legacyupdate.net with a Gemini client and gemini://gemi.dev with the News Waffle proxy, RSS news delivered from Usenet with GMANE... there are tons of hacks.
Patching the old clients it's often usually easy, even more in case of AMSN (TCL). It's a matter of changing the URL of the service and maybe some slight API change.
Escargot covers the MSN services, which is similar to NINA:
> Yahoo! Messenger support is publicly available and interoperates with our Escargot network.
Why not contribute to one of many FLOSS implementations that were once maintained?
AIM, MSN and ICQ are reimplemented in a form that even legacy patched clients should work as they came minus the server URL patch.
https://nina.chat/news/120500000101270/icq-now-in-open-alpha...
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Bluestein•6mo ago
Spaceships bearing our genes will still beam IRC from somewhere down deep in engineering.-
stevenAthompson•6mo ago
I'd wager that it will be AI's using IRC from space, but IPv6 still won't have replaced IPv4. :)
Bluestein•6mo ago
You are indeed totally correct on all points!
(But IRC it will be :)
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